Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
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The leading international journal in women's studies, Signs has since 1975 been at the forefront of new directions in feminist scholarship. | http://signsjournal.org | Published by @uchicagopress.bsky.social
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The Winter 2026 SIGNS Journal issue is now available! This issue provides a rich commentary on the nature of feminist resistance informed by ethnographic research, including a special Ask a Feminist interview with Malala Yousafzai and her father. www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/signs/20...
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society | Vol 51, No 2
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February 12, 2026 at 3:54 PM
The Winter 2026 SIGNS Journal issue is now available! This issue provides a rich commentary on the nature of feminist resistance informed by ethnographic research, including a special Ask a Feminist interview with Malala Yousafzai and her father. www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/signs/20...
@sorayachemaly.bsky.social: "The structure of thought of today’s backlash—its unremitting core—is a supremacist worldview based in biological determinism, social dominance hierarchy, and the free exercise of legitimized violence."
Soraya Chemaly’s All We Want Is Everything
Renee Bracey Sherman, Koritha Mitchell, and Carmen Rios respond to Soraya Chemaly’s new book All We Want Is Everything, with a response from Chemaly!
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February 6, 2026 at 5:28 PM
@sorayachemaly.bsky.social: "The structure of thought of today’s backlash—its unremitting core—is a supremacist worldview based in biological determinism, social dominance hierarchy, and the free exercise of legitimized violence."
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Thank you @signsjournal.org for the vital work you do and to @carmenriosss.bsky.social @profkori.bsky.social and @renee.bsky.social for your thoughtful (and humbling!) considerations of All We Want is Everything!
New Short Takes! @renee.bsky.social, @carmenriosss.bsky.social, & @profkori.bsky.social discuss @sorayachemaly.bsky.social's All We Want Is Everything: How We Dismantle Male Supremacy! And Chemaly responds to the commentaries, expanding on the themes in her book. Check it out free!
Soraya Chemaly’s All We Want Is Everything | Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
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February 6, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Thank you @signsjournal.org for the vital work you do and to @carmenriosss.bsky.social @profkori.bsky.social and @renee.bsky.social for your thoughtful (and humbling!) considerations of All We Want is Everything!
@carmenriosss.bsky.social: "The term ["male supremacy"] itself is a stark reminder that the lopsided nature of our lives is not an accident — that the discrimination we face is not a bug but a feature in a world built to maintain the power, dominance, and entitlement of men."
Soraya Chemaly’s All We Want Is Everything
Renee Bracey Sherman, Koritha Mitchell, and Carmen Rios respond to Soraya Chemaly’s new book All We Want Is Everything, with a response from Chemaly!
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February 5, 2026 at 9:21 PM
@carmenriosss.bsky.social: "The term ["male supremacy"] itself is a stark reminder that the lopsided nature of our lives is not an accident — that the discrimination we face is not a bug but a feature in a world built to maintain the power, dominance, and entitlement of men."
Check out Sally Kitch’s Feminist Frictions essay, “Forged in Fire: Constructing Women’s Studies Knowledge for Social Engagement, 1979-2019,” which reflects on the ways women’s studies intersects with (or diverges from) social activism. Read the full essay here: signsjournal.org/kitch/
Feminist Frictions: Forged in Fire: Constructing Women’s Studies Knowledge for Social Engagement, 1979-2019
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February 5, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Check out Sally Kitch’s Feminist Frictions essay, “Forged in Fire: Constructing Women’s Studies Knowledge for Social Engagement, 1979-2019,” which reflects on the ways women’s studies intersects with (or diverges from) social activism. Read the full essay here: signsjournal.org/kitch/
@profkori.bsky.social: "When many Americans saw the achievements of marginalized groups and wanted to remind those groups of their 'proper' place of subordination, they elevated Donald Trump. They insisted that being a white man is what matters most. There’s no need to be admirable."
Soraya Chemaly’s All We Want Is Everything
Renee Bracey Sherman, Koritha Mitchell, and Carmen Rios respond to Soraya Chemaly’s new book All We Want Is Everything, with a response from Chemaly!
signsjournal.org
February 5, 2026 at 7:21 PM
@profkori.bsky.social: "When many Americans saw the achievements of marginalized groups and wanted to remind those groups of their 'proper' place of subordination, they elevated Donald Trump. They insisted that being a white man is what matters most. There’s no need to be admirable."
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«Chemaly challenges feminists to think beyond gender equality, a frame she exposes as male supremacist. What kind of feminism champions women’s right to fit into the systems men have built? Instead, she encourages us to focus on building new models for shared prosperity, justice, human rights»
@renee.bsky.social: "All We Want Is Everything reads as a thought-provoking conversation with that astute friend who leaves you equipped to take on the world. [It's] anchored in stories—little vignettes of memories in Chemaly’s life or moments from the news cycle ripe for dissection and analysis."
Soraya Chemaly’s All We Want Is Everything
Renee Bracey Sherman, Koritha Mitchell, and Carmen Rios respond to Soraya Chemaly’s new book All We Want Is Everything, with a response from Chemaly!
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February 5, 2026 at 6:43 PM
«Chemaly challenges feminists to think beyond gender equality, a frame she exposes as male supremacist. What kind of feminism champions women’s right to fit into the systems men have built? Instead, she encourages us to focus on building new models for shared prosperity, justice, human rights»
@renee.bsky.social: "All We Want Is Everything reads as a thought-provoking conversation with that astute friend who leaves you equipped to take on the world. [It's] anchored in stories—little vignettes of memories in Chemaly’s life or moments from the news cycle ripe for dissection and analysis."
Soraya Chemaly’s All We Want Is Everything
Renee Bracey Sherman, Koritha Mitchell, and Carmen Rios respond to Soraya Chemaly’s new book All We Want Is Everything, with a response from Chemaly!
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February 5, 2026 at 5:15 PM
@renee.bsky.social: "All We Want Is Everything reads as a thought-provoking conversation with that astute friend who leaves you equipped to take on the world. [It's] anchored in stories—little vignettes of memories in Chemaly’s life or moments from the news cycle ripe for dissection and analysis."
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@signsjournal.org put me in powerful company to discuss Soraya Chemaly’s incisive book ALL WE WANT IS EVERYTHING!
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February 5, 2026 at 1:25 PM
@signsjournal.org put me in powerful company to discuss Soraya Chemaly’s incisive book ALL WE WANT IS EVERYTHING!
Read at signsjournal.org/soraya-chema...
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New Short Takes! @renee.bsky.social, @carmenriosss.bsky.social, & @profkori.bsky.social discuss @sorayachemaly.bsky.social's All We Want Is Everything: How We Dismantle Male Supremacy! And Chemaly responds to the commentaries, expanding on the themes in her book. Check it out free!
Soraya Chemaly’s All We Want Is Everything | Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
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February 5, 2026 at 3:47 PM
New Short Takes! @renee.bsky.social, @carmenriosss.bsky.social, & @profkori.bsky.social discuss @sorayachemaly.bsky.social's All We Want Is Everything: How We Dismantle Male Supremacy! And Chemaly responds to the commentaries, expanding on the themes in her book. Check it out free!
Check out Anna Simone Reumert's article "Mama’s Maybe? Hierarchies of Migrant Kin-Making from Lebanon to Sudan" from “Lesbian Studies, Now." “[T]he migrant child is legally papa’s baby and mama’s maybe, but born undocumented in the eyes of the state.”
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Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society | Vol 51, No 2
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February 3, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Check out Anna Simone Reumert's article "Mama’s Maybe? Hierarchies of Migrant Kin-Making from Lebanon to Sudan" from “Lesbian Studies, Now." “[T]he migrant child is legally papa’s baby and mama’s maybe, but born undocumented in the eyes of the state.”
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/signs/cu...
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From GamerGate to today’s backlash against DEI, @jazzmyth.bsky.social discusses the ongoing cycles of antifeminist rage Cynthia Miller-Idriss charts in Man Up. Our latest Short Takes is here: buff.ly/AkS5W4D
January 16, 2026 at 3:04 PM
From GamerGate to today’s backlash against DEI, @jazzmyth.bsky.social discusses the ongoing cycles of antifeminist rage Cynthia Miller-Idriss charts in Man Up. Our latest Short Takes is here: buff.ly/AkS5W4D
@alexdibranco.bsky.social contextualizes Man Up as part of a necessary reckoning with misogyny within both right‑wing movements and the research fields that study them. Our new Short Takes, here: buff.ly/AkS5W4D
January 15, 2026 at 9:01 PM
@alexdibranco.bsky.social contextualizes Man Up as part of a necessary reckoning with misogyny within both right‑wing movements and the research fields that study them. Our new Short Takes, here: buff.ly/AkS5W4D
“Fighting extremism requires us...to get at the root of the problem by countering patriarchal assumptions and combating everyday discrimination, sexism, and gendered violence before more extreme forms of violence can grow.” Read more of Amy Farrell’s thoughts on Man Up here: buff.ly/AkS5W4D
January 15, 2026 at 3:02 PM
“Fighting extremism requires us...to get at the root of the problem by countering patriarchal assumptions and combating everyday discrimination, sexism, and gendered violence before more extreme forms of violence can grow.” Read more of Amy Farrell’s thoughts on Man Up here: buff.ly/AkS5W4D
“The book is less a catalog of bad actors than a cultural autopsy of a political formation that thrives on moral panic about gender itself.” @tristanbridges.bsky.social on men’s gendered resentment in our new Short Takes:
Cynthia Miller-Idriss’s Man Up
Tristan Bridges, Amy Farrell, Alex DiBranco, and Jasmine Mithani discuss Cynthia Miller-Idriss’s new book Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism.
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January 14, 2026 at 9:01 PM
“The book is less a catalog of bad actors than a cultural autopsy of a political formation that thrives on moral panic about gender itself.” @tristanbridges.bsky.social on men’s gendered resentment in our new Short Takes:
Signs’ new Short Takes on Man Up examines how patriarchal backlash, hostile sexism, and hypermasculinity converge to fuel contemporary violence. Check it out here! signsjournal.org/cynthia-mill...
Cynthia Miller-Idriss’s Man Up
Tristan Bridges, Amy Farrell, Alex DiBranco, and Jasmine Mithani discuss Cynthia Miller-Idriss’s new book Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism.
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January 12, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Signs’ new Short Takes on Man Up examines how patriarchal backlash, hostile sexism, and hypermasculinity converge to fuel contemporary violence. Check it out here! signsjournal.org/cynthia-mill...
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Short Takes returns with reflections on @milleridriss.bsky.social’s Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism. Featuring @tristanbridges.bsky.social, Amy Farrell, @alexdibranco.bsky.social, and @jazzmyth.bsky.social. Available free on our website!
signsjournal.org/cynthia-mill...
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Cynthia Miller-Idriss’s Man Up
Tristan Bridges, Amy Farrell, Alex DiBranco, and Jasmine Mithani discuss Cynthia Miller-Idriss’s new book Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism.
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January 12, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Short Takes returns with reflections on @milleridriss.bsky.social’s Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism. Featuring @tristanbridges.bsky.social, Amy Farrell, @alexdibranco.bsky.social, and @jazzmyth.bsky.social. Available free on our website!
signsjournal.org/cynthia-mill...
signsjournal.org/cynthia-mill...
Short Takes returns with reflections on @milleridriss.bsky.social’s Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism. Featuring @tristanbridges.bsky.social, Amy Farrell, @alexdibranco.bsky.social, and @jazzmyth.bsky.social. Available free on our website!
signsjournal.org/cynthia-mill...
signsjournal.org/cynthia-mill...
Cynthia Miller-Idriss’s Man Up
Tristan Bridges, Amy Farrell, Alex DiBranco, and Jasmine Mithani discuss Cynthia Miller-Idriss’s new book Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism.
signsjournal.org
January 12, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Short Takes returns with reflections on @milleridriss.bsky.social’s Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism. Featuring @tristanbridges.bsky.social, Amy Farrell, @alexdibranco.bsky.social, and @jazzmyth.bsky.social. Available free on our website!
signsjournal.org/cynthia-mill...
signsjournal.org/cynthia-mill...
“Trans studies is in...dialogue with processes of decolonization, of racial justice, of anti–global capitalism... it becomes a part of an overthrowing...of how these...pernicious systems of power root themselves in our flesh.” - Susan Stryker
Check out this Ask A Feminist Episode on Trans Feminisms!
Check out this Ask A Feminist Episode on Trans Feminisms!
Ask a Feminist: Susan Stryker discusses Trans Studies, Trans Feminism, and a More Trans Future with V Varun Chaudhry
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December 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
“Trans studies is in...dialogue with processes of decolonization, of racial justice, of anti–global capitalism... it becomes a part of an overthrowing...of how these...pernicious systems of power root themselves in our flesh.” - Susan Stryker
Check out this Ask A Feminist Episode on Trans Feminisms!
Check out this Ask A Feminist Episode on Trans Feminisms!
Civil rights leader Ella Baker's birthday was this past Saturday, Dec 13th. To learn more about the incredible work she did and why she's known as a mother of the civil rights movement, check out this Signs article!
Ella Baker and Models of Social Change | Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society: Vol 14, No 4
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December 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Civil rights leader Ella Baker's birthday was this past Saturday, Dec 13th. To learn more about the incredible work she did and why she's known as a mother of the civil rights movement, check out this Signs article!
Check out Julia Golda Harris's article "Womanly Sounds: Women’s Music and Lesbian Transfeminisms and Transphobias in the 1970s" from our most recent issue, "Lesbian Studies, Now".
Womanly Sounds: Women’s Music and Lesbian Transfeminisms and Transphobias in the 1970s | Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society: Vol 51, No 1
Abstract Why did the most significant conflicts over trans inclusion and exclusion in US lesbian feminist spaces in the late twentieth century take place within women’s music settings? Such incidents ...
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November 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Check out Julia Golda Harris's article "Womanly Sounds: Women’s Music and Lesbian Transfeminisms and Transphobias in the 1970s" from our most recent issue, "Lesbian Studies, Now".
Today is the last day of Transgender Awareness week! In celebration of this, check out the digital archive on our website offering various resources on Transgender Law and Politics!
Catharine A. MacKinnon, “Exploring Transgender Law and Politics”
Digital Archive: To accompany this Feminist Frictions essay, Signs invites you to explore two previously independently prepared resources related to the themes in “Exploring Transgender Law a…
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November 19, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Today is the last day of Transgender Awareness week! In celebration of this, check out the digital archive on our website offering various resources on Transgender Law and Politics!
Last Wed, Nov 12th, was the birthday of the punk feminist and Riot grrrl pioneer, Kathleen Hannah! In celebration of this, check out this article to not only learn more about Hannah and the Riot grrrl movement, but to also hear about the amazing punk feminist author, Kathy Acker!
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November 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Last Wed, Nov 12th, was the birthday of the punk feminist and Riot grrrl pioneer, Kathleen Hannah! In celebration of this, check out this article to not only learn more about Hannah and the Riot grrrl movement, but to also hear about the amazing punk feminist author, Kathy Acker!
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Stop by our booth at the National Women's Studies Association conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico to learn about Signs, our other journals, and to grab some giveaways. Can’t make it in person? Discover our women's studies journals here: https://ow.ly/pEbi50Xm3sw
November 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Stop by our booth at the National Women's Studies Association conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico to learn about Signs, our other journals, and to grab some giveaways. Can’t make it in person? Discover our women's studies journals here: https://ow.ly/pEbi50Xm3sw
#NWSA attendees! On Sunday, join the editors of feminist journals, including Signs editor Suzanna Danuta Walters, for practical advice about how to get published in feminist scholarly journals! "Publishing in Feminist Journals: Meet with the Editors," Sunday, November 16, 1:00 - 2:15 pm, Room 203.
November 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
#NWSA attendees! On Sunday, join the editors of feminist journals, including Signs editor Suzanna Danuta Walters, for practical advice about how to get published in feminist scholarly journals! "Publishing in Feminist Journals: Meet with the Editors," Sunday, November 16, 1:00 - 2:15 pm, Room 203.